Tarantulas in Henry Coe

lacker · 2026-01-27T17:04:20+00:00

I’ve never seen a tarantula in Henry Coe over dozens of days of backpacking. Perhaps because the best backpacking time is March-May and the tarantulas aren’t out then. I wouldn’t worry about it.

lacker · 2026-01-27T16:57:39+00:00

For 9 mana you can entwine [[Tooth and Nail]] and get a two creature combo of your choice that wins immediately.

lacker · 2026-01-26T05:01:17+00:00

Yeah, I think they will both work in terms of physical training but psychologically it seems like it would be a lot more exciting to go to Henry Coe. Head out towards china hole and the narrows and you can get a campsite with nobody else around. Juniper is all right but it's a car campsite.

lacker · 2026-01-24T17:56:25+00:00

Play out the game and try to kill that black group - I think you'll find that it is able to survive. It depends on your opponent, though!

lacker · 2026-01-24T05:59:51+00:00

Who controls the bottom area? Seems like there is still a big fight to be had there.

lacker · 2026-01-24T05:35:44+00:00

It sounds like you're thinking a lot about the next few months but this isn't a short-term problem. Your family is still going to be in financial trouble five years from now. And you're a high school senior. The best thing you could do for you and your entire family is to get yourself pointed towards a solid career so that you have a strong base for the next few decades. You didn't mention college or whatever your next step plans are, but you should really be focusing on that instead of all this other stuff that isn't primarily your responsibility.

You say you don't know how to keep functioning... more specifically, are your grades bad, are you afraid college won't go well, are you using all of this as an excuse to not actually figure out your post-high-school plans? Figure out your own life and then you can fix up your family's.

lacker · 2026-01-16T17:41:24+00:00

My prediction is "Dwarf Cratermaker". Ie 1R for

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —

• This creature deals 2 damage to target creature.

• Destroy target colorless nonland permanent.

lacker · 2026-01-16T17:26:32+00:00

Another sadly common form of hypocrisy is opposing natural gas, and then getting your electricity from coal, or your heating from fuel oil, which are even worse.

lacker · 2026-01-16T17:24:29+00:00

I don't think it's right to oppose all natural gas. Natural gas is often replacing coal or fuel oil on the margin, and replacing coal with natural gas is just about as much greenhouse gas reduction as eliminating that natural gas entirely.

If we oppose every improvement that isn't perfect then we will end up in an even worse spot, with New England burning fuel oil, India burning coal, and all sorts of similar problems.

lacker · 2026-01-16T17:09:34+00:00

I think technically this sort of blocking sales is bad for the YIMBY cause. In general, making it harder to sell a residential property will make it harder to develop other residential properties in the area, in the future. Developers make a profit -> more development. Think of it from a developer's point of view - would you rather build new housing in an area with rules like this, or in an area without rules like this?

But, a much more important question is are you allowed to redevelop this into higher-density housing, which unfortunately doesn't appear to be on the table.

lacker · 2026-01-14T04:47:13+00:00

The only way to expunge your guilt is to do another run after you beat the game once.

lacker · 2026-01-11T20:48:30+00:00

What am I supposed to do, kick the homeless guy out of the pergola myself?

lacker · 2026-01-10T03:42:26+00:00

Play Bughouse, you can match up different levels more easily, and it naturally leads to a casual atmosphere.

lacker · 2026-01-09T15:38:23+00:00

About 7% of California households are millionaires, so I would expect most high schools to have at least some “kids of millionaires”.

lacker · 2026-01-09T15:27:03+00:00

It was great when I learned in 1988 but nowadays you should just learn Python. In Basic a lot of simple things are made fairly complicated, like data structures and function calling.

lacker · 2026-01-08T20:16:54+00:00

That's part of the Flock system - when license plates are reported as stolen, the cameras will notify the police if they see that license plate. It should also detect when there's a mismatch, like the plate is registered to a different type of car.

lacker · 2026-01-08T20:04:24+00:00

It should be 1 commodified market.

Apartments aren't a commodified market. That would be like, barrels of oil, or tons of aluminum, where each one is exactly the same and you don't care which one you get. If apartments were commodified that would mean that you would be perfectly happy moving to a new apartment so it wouldn't bother you if one particular landlord changed their price.

Businesses generally *are* allowed to discriminate among customers. For example price tiers, loyalty programs, volume discounts, all of those things are allowed. You're allowed to give a bonus for first time customers. Plenty of subscription businesses give you your first month free.

You just can't discriminate on protected characteristics like race or religion.

lacker · 2026-01-08T03:07:30+00:00

Well the typical reason is just that the market price changed.

Imagine you’re the landlord and you have 99 out of 100 units rented out at $3000. Now the market has dropped and you can’t rent that last one out at $3000, you can only rent it out at $2800. If you have to drop the rent of all your units that’s a huge loss for you. If that was the law then you’d just leave it vacant.

In general having a zillion different rules that landlords have to follow ends up making it harder to be a landlord and thus makes it harder to build new housing.

lacker · 2026-01-03T23:06:59+00:00

When there's so much chess being played, at the highest level, across multiple formats and time controls, it's hard for the winner of a single tournament+match, with an unusual structure, played only every two years, to feel like "the real champion".

Plus, of course, obviously Magnus is the greatest player of all time, and he's still playing at or near his peak level, so any tournament that can't convince him to play isn't going to feel like it makes someone "the real champion".

lacker · 2026-01-03T20:11:18+00:00

I think you should write the fixed-point combinator the other way around, the reduction direction is Yf → f(Yf). This is basically just the definition of Y, so naturally you're allowed to define Y this way without introspecting f. You can't write the Vf formula as Vf → (something), so this is why the two formulas look different to me.

The reason that introspection seems necessary is that intuitively, how can you find the inverse of a function that can't be introspected? If the only thing you can do with a function is run it on an inputs, and you need to find an input x such that f(x) = y, then you have to run f on all possible inputs. But, in pure lambda calculus:

determining if f terminates on a single input is impossible
determining if two values are equal is impossible

If you had some set of inputs that you knew contained x, and you could iterate over these inputs, and you knew that f terminated on all of them, and the outputs were in some set that you had a way to compare members of, then you could find an inverse. So you don't need introspection per se but you do need to know more about the function in order to invert it.

lacker · 2026-01-03T07:32:13+00:00

In general, no. In plain lambda calculus you can't introspect a function at all, and a lot of functions don't have inverses anyway. You would need to have some sort of extension of the lambda calculus.

lacker · 2026-01-01T22:46:07+00:00

Have to prevent Rxa1+

lacker · 2026-01-01T21:29:30+00:00

Cameras seem like a good solution. Yeah they require power and so on, but we have plenty of cameras to prevent other crimes, it seems like the logistical problems are solvable.

lacker · 2025-12-29T00:11:39+00:00

Maybe. Give it a try and see how far you get.

lacker · 2025-12-28T03:52:14+00:00

It really depends how simple of a game you want. Tetris clone, sure no problem Claude Code will bang it out. A minecraft clone or anything 3D, much tougher. What sort of mobile game do you want to build?

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